Tuesday, January 10, 2012

A Must Read

Charles Dickens was a well known author.  Known for books like
                                                                                        Great Expectations,
                                                                                                    A Tale of Two Cities,
                                                                                                                        Little Dorrit ,
                                                                                                                               A Christmas Carol,
For Christmas my husbands parents gave us the book:
This is one of the most powerful books.  It is sweet the way this man known as one of the grand masters of Victorian literature took time to write an account of Jesus Christs life.  This book was intended for his children
For eighty-five years the manuscript was guarded as a precious family secret, and it was handed down from one relative to the next. When Dickens died in 1870, it was left to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. From there it fell to Dickens's son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived.
Just before the 1933 holidays, Sir Henry, then the only living child of Dickens, died, leaving his father's manuscript to his wife and children. He also bequeathed to them the right to make the decision to publish The Life of Our Lord. By majority vote, Sir Henry's widow and children decided to publish the book in London. In 1934, Simon & Schuster published the first American edition, which became one of the year's biggest bestsellers.

THIS teaches about Jesus Christ in such a simple yet powerful way.  You need to get a copy and read it, I think you will love it to.

1 comment:

  1. Charles Dickens is my favorite! And I'm loving your blog!!

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